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  • Those lava-flow saxophones aren't even the eeriest thing about "Paul Motian on Broadway, Volume 5."

    Paul Motian: Two From An Anti-Drummer 2010

  • Those lava-flow saxophones aren't even the eeriest thing about "Paul Motian on Broadway, Volume 5."

    Paul Motian: Two From An Anti-Drummer 2010

  • In the lava-flow of leaves that gushes from him, the Green Man is clearly uttering something.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • In the lava-flow of leaves that gushes from him, the Green Man is clearly uttering something.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • At several points around the coast there are lava-flow causeways and paved ramps.

    The Eight Wonder of the World – Easter Island | Impact Lab 2007

  • And recent concerts in New York and London of some of Beethoven's most difficult piano music drew reveries from the critics, who called his interpretations "poetic," "masterly," and "a lava-flow of invention."

    A Reputation in Music Built 2007

  • The lava-flow of macerated chocolate was soothing, and she turned the music up as loud as it would go because she knew that music had a way of warding off thinking entirely.

    The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005

  • Only gigantic causes can account for the gigantic phenomena of this lava-flow.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • It took us a full hour to cross this deep depression, and as long to master a steep hot ascent of about 400 feet, formed by a recent lava-flow from Hale-mau-mau into the basin.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Suppose a community of people to be living on the slope of a volcano, directly under the crater and in the path of lava-flow; that volcano has been breaking out right along for ages and is certain to break out again.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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